"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."

-- Mario Vargas Llosa

#Political Quotes #Creation Quotes #Incompatibility Quotes

“I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.”
“Itâ€™s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. Itâ€™s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something Iâ€™ve never gotten the hang of.Â But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And thatâ€™s what jazz music is all about.”
“I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.”
“I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.”

Source : Jimmy Dean, Donna Meade Dean (2006). “Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story”, Berkley Publishing Group
“True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.”
“It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me look upon it as the sum of all evils.”

Source : Stonewall Jackson's comments to his pastor (April 1861) as quoted in Mary Anna Jackson "Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson by His Widow, Mary Anna Jackson" (p. 141), 1895.
“We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.”
“I wanted my dad to be proud of me, and I fell into acting because there wasn't anything else I could do, and in it I found a discipline that I wanted to keep coming back to, that I love and I learn about every day.”

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